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Article from issue 7+8/2007 »Steel Construction«

Visitors' Pavilion in Pouilly-en-Auxois

documentation p. 814 - 815
Architect Shigeru Ban Architects | Structural Engineer Terrell Rooke et Associés |

Drafts
1:10 Exploded diagram of column
1:500 Floor plans
1:500 Sections
Isometric of system

As part of an arts project along the Canal de Bourgogne, a range of architects and artists were invited to create work that would respond to the particular context. Shigeru Ban designed two buildings: the Halle de Toueur, with its roof of cardboard tubes, and a 280 m2 “glass-box”-style museum pavilion on the waterfront. The polished screed floor inside the glazed exhibition space seems like an extension of the surface of the water, an impression facilitated by angle profiles (commonly used for industrial shelving) bolted together to form columns that support the roof. The whole is braced by a reinforced-concrete core with WC. The columns are integrated in the museum’s display system.